Principal Safety and Reliability Engineer
On-siteCambridge, England, United Kingdom or Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Write Safety and Reliability plans and perform analysis without supervision to ensure project and statutory requirements are met. Act as the technical arbiter within the Safety Design Group, decomposing requirements and guiding the system design team on design rigour. Make well-informed decisions that alter project course, validate customer requirements against standards like SAE ARP4761, and escalate discrepancies. Present autonomously at Design Reviews and support bids as the project Safety and Reliability focal. Highlight concerns early with compelling evidence for design changes and lead product investigations resulting from aircraft incidents.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive in-depth experience of safety and reliability in aerospace
- Technically competent to assess and manage technical risk in their area and honestly presenting the detail and the wider impact
- Able to communicate succinctly and accurately on technical issues and schemes with internal and external customers and the team
- Capable of overseeing and approving other Safety and Reliability engineers' work
- Conversant with aerospace safety design and assessment (FMEA FTA etc.)
- Conversant with safety and certification requirements for aerospace
- Conversant with SAE ARP4761/4754 etc.
- Conversant with DO160, DO178, DO254
- Conversant with MIL HDBK 217 reliability calculations and alternatives
- Conversant with the manufacturing techniques used for aerospace electronics
- Able and willing to participate and organise product investigations resulting from aircraft incidents
- Candidates must be able to work in the UK without restrictions in accordance with UK National Law
- Candidates must be prepared to successfully undertake an appropriate level of UK National Security Vetting according to UK Government National Security Vetting criteria
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with aerospace materials and components
- Familiarity with aspects of PCB design
- Familiarity with aspects of EMC techniques
- Familiarity with system design practice
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